A winter view from the IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis. The new Twins stadium can be seen just below the smoke column.

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Here's a picture of a local Milwaukee icon that burned to the ground yesterday. While I'm sure Pizza Man has some great insurance, there's no way to replace the quirky ambiance of this building that lasted nearly half a century. I walked by last night and the East Side (Milwaukee's hip college district) looked like a war zone. It was creepily quiet.

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For it's here that fine arts with the frivolous twine,
A veritable Deutschland just Over the Rhine.

there's no way to replace the quirky ambiance of this building that lasted nearly half a century.

I think it's the exterior of this building that would be forever lost, but I believe you're being too pessimistic about the quirky atmosphere vanishing. (Well, I guess it is too soon after the fire to feel otherwise.)

Milwaukee has some remarkable indoor design talents and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of quality unique custom crafts furnishings, and just plain gimcrack, to cover the walls an ceilings of interesting eat-and-drinkeries. Of course, if they reopen it won't be a carbon copy, but if they do a good job, (and why not?), customers will quickly make it their own again.
The pizza was good too, wasn't it?

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Leonardo's (Da Vinci) horse was a sculpture Da Vinci was never able to complete. There are only three such statues have been completed using his plans: one in Milan, one recently put on display in Atlanta, and this one in Grand Rapids' Frederick Meijer Gardens. It is quite a work of art.

Leonardo's (Da Vinci) horse was a sculpture Da Vinci was never able to complete. There are only three such statues have been completed using his plans: one in Milan, one recently put on display in Atlanta, and this one in Grand Rapids' Frederick Meijer Gardens. It is quite a work of art.